PBL Project: Develop a presentation to be given to a group of families, where a child has been recently diagnosed with an illness/disease of your choice.

The purpose of the presentation is to inform families and sufferers about the disease, and to provide clear, simple guidelines for dietary intervention to improve health, correct the condition or prevent deterioration in health.

9. Childhood Obesity

Cause of Childhood Obesity

What is Unhealthy about Childhood Obesity?

Guidelines for Child Weight Loss

10. Diet Plans

Special Nutritional Needs

Childhood Diabetes

Vegetarian and Vegan Diets

Normal Eating Habits for Children

AIMS

Discuss the nature and scope of developing nutrition for children according to their backgrounds and needs.

Explain the various nutritional needs of the mother and father before pregnancy .

Explain the various nutritional needs of the mother and child during pregnancy.

Explain various nutritional needs of infants from birth to age two.

Explain various nutritional aspects of growing children addressing various issues and concerns.

Identify concerns in the diets of children and adolescents and overcoming them.

Lists ways to encourage healthy eating behaviour in children.

Explain some of the common issues such as food sensitivities in childhood nutrition.

Explain causes and guidelines to overcoming childhood obesity.

Develop a list diet outlines for healthy children and special diet plans for children with special nutritional needs.

WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE

Here is some of what you may do:

Interview three parents regarding the diets (what the children eat for breakfast , lunch and dinner as well as snacks) of their children , they can be family or friends. Make a day’s menu for each one of them according to the information they give you

Interview two pregnant women (family or friends) and question about their daily diet. Note what they have said and write how you would improve their diets.

Research for information to make a tasty and healthy weaning mix for a six month old baby. Make your own weaning mix with the information you have gathered.

Conduct a survey and find out what children and adolescents are actually eating. Write a 200 word report on your survey. (You can conduct your survey by talking to children, adolescents and their parents, by reading articles in magazines and newspapers or by searching the internet)

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Dietary Fibre

The lack of dietary fibre in modern processed foods is one of several major issues with children's nutrition today. When dietary fibre is inadequate; the balance of gut bacteria can change; and research has shown that can in turn cause a wide variety of health and developmental issues in a child

Fibre is an important component of food. Some sources recommend that adults should consume around 18g to 24g of fibre is consumed in a day. Some experts would suggest that much higher levels of fibre consumption are beneficial. Having knowledge about which foods are high in fibre will help to ensure the daily recommendations are met.

Fibre is present in plant foods, but not in animal products such as meat and dairy foods. Fibre can be divided into 2 categories, soluble and insoluble. Soluble fibre is found in all fruits and vegetables and is particularly common in foods such as apples, oats, barley, and lentils. This type of fibre helps to lower cholesterol and control blood sugar levels. Meanwhile, insoluble fibre is found in wholemeal products, brown rice, fruits with edible seeds, lentils and pulses. This type of fibre helps to prevent constipation by making stools soft and bulky and easy to pass.

The fibre content of foods is calculated by using a microscope to study carbohydrates and to estimate the amount of fibre present in the cell walls of each food

To help you to evaluate the fibre content of foods, consider foods with more than 3g of fibre/ 100g to be a source of fibre and those with over 6g of fibre/100g to be a good source of fibre (eg. broccoli is 3.1)

Are you interested in learning more about good nutrition for children? Then why not enrol today.

WHAT NEXT?

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Learn more about a healthy and balanced diet

for children, babies and during pregnancy with this informative course.

This course/module will enable you understand all aspects of childhood nutrition and deal with them. It is an ideal course for people working with children in the child care industry. It is also a good course for mothers wanting to understand their children’s nutritional needs and learn to cope with them or for self enhancement.

Karen LeeNutritional Scientist, Dietician, Teacher and Author.
BSc. Hons. (Biological Sciences), Postgraduate Diploma Nutrition and Dietetics.
Registered dietitian in the UK, with over 15 years working in the NHS. Karen has undertaken a number of research projects and has lectured to undergraduate university students. Has co authored two books on nutrition and several other books in health sciences.

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How Children ThinkAnyone who has ever tried to make a child do anything (clean up their mess, desist from throwing mud, stop drawing on the walls) knows that children think differently to adults. This book attempts to provide the skills and knowledge to develop a greater understanding of children.

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Nutritional TherapyDiscover how the way you eat can impact upon the affects of an illness. This book is unique, written by our health and nutritional scientists. Chapters cover: “Scope and Nature of Nutritional Therapy”, “How different factors Interact with Nutrition”, “Different Ways” and “Appropriate Therapeutic Responses for Different Health Issues” Thirty different conditions are covered from Mental Illness and Gastritis to Coeliac Disease and Osteoporosis.

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